[Community-service] {Disarmed} Fwd: Innovation, Opportunity, and Excellence

[Darian Smith]

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> From: "National Service Press Office" <pressoffice at delivery.nationalservice.gov>
> Subject: Innovation, Opportunity, and Excellence
> Date: February 28, 2014 at 9:47:04 AM PST
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> Dear Colleagues and Communicators,
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> We know that service and social innovation lead to opportunities -- and this theme emerged in an especially big way this week. Our latest highlights demonstrate the kind of ingenuity that the national service community continues to foster. Take a look at what our community did in the last five days:
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> Monday: Expanding Promise, Opportunity, and Impact
> Tuesday: Sharing AmeriCorps on the "Day of the A"
> Wednesday: Thanking Colorado's National Service Participants
> Thursday: Creating Opportunity Through Service and Innovation
> Friday: Introducing the Tulane AmeriCorps Fellows Program
> That just about wraps up February... now to March! On the heels of the fourth anniversary of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative, we'll continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps with Healthy Futures Month. To get involved, check out our toolkit for ideas, key messages, and more.
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> Thanks and have a great weekend,
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> The External Affairs Team
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> Monday: Expanding Promise, Opportunity, and Impact
> The Social Innovation Fund launched its fourth funding competition, investing up to $65.8 million in funding to evaluate and grow proven, innovative solutions. The 2014 competition builds on nearly five years of "lessons learned" for this Presidential priority.
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> Tuesday: Sharing AmeriCorps on the "Day of the A"
> The "Day of the A" was a way to highlight the key role that service plays in education as part of the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps. Throughout the country, AmeriCorps members and program staff shared creative photos displaying the AmeriCorps "A" in their classrooms, offices, and service sites.
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> Wednesday: Thanking Colorado's National Service Participants
> National service participants provide critical services to hundreds of thousands of survivors of floods, fires, hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters. During her visit to Colorado this week, CEO Wendy Spencer met with Senior Corps RSVP volunteers and AmeriCorps members to thank them for their flood response and disaster recovery efforts. Senior Corps RSVP volunteers who serve with the Seniors Helping Other People (SHOP) program create safer homes for residents by installing ramps and completing home repairs.
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> Thursday: Creating Opportunity Through Service and Innovation
> Young men from our Social Innovation Fund grantees--Becoming a Man/Youth Guidance, Latin American Youth Center, KIPP DC, and Communities in Schools--joined President Obama to launch the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, a new effort aimed at empowering boys and young men of color. CEO Wendy Spencer will be a member of the new federal task force that the President is forming for this effort.
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> Friday: Introducing the Tulane AmeriCorps Fellows Program
> CNCS has partnered with Tulane University and the Aspen Institute’s Franklin Project to give recent graduates an opportunity to make a difference in their New Orleans communities. The Tulane AmeriCorps Fellows Program, which will begin this summer, supports eight fellows who will work full-time with nonprofits in high-need neighborhoods throughout the city.
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> National Service in the News
> AmeriCorps
> Special Graduation Ceremony for At-Risk Students
> WDTV-TV (WV), February 22, 2014
> [VIDEO] They were part of a program called YouthBuild that helps low income kids or high school drop outs get a second chance at an education. The non-profit organization partners with AmeriCorps and the Randolph County Housing Authority.
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> AmeriCorps VISTA
> Springfield Promise could be model program
> Springfield News-Sun (OH), February 23, 2014
> Just as integral is AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA) program volunteers, supplied through a partnership with Think Tank Inc. VISTA has provided 10 full-time volunteers, who agree to serve while living a the local poverty level for at least a year and who focus their energies on making Springfield Promise a success.
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> AmeriCorps NCCC
> Local hero serves in AmeriCorps NCCC
> Wicked Local (MA), February 19, 2014
> Dylan Kintish of Beverly recently began a 10-month term of service in the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program.
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> Senior Corps
> Volunteer opportunities abound for Worcester's older citizens through RSVP program
> MassLive (MS), February 25, 2014
> Retired after working in a gift shop for more than two decades, Oriente didn't want to sit idle in her house, she wanted to be useful…The RSVP mission is simple: to provide quality volunteer opportunities for older adults. Since 1971, the non-profit organization, which is a part of the Senior Corps program, has helped connect nearly 400 people who are at least 55 years old with more than 40 different types of volunteer opportunities called stations.
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> Social Innovation Fund
> President Obama to launch major new effort to help young minority men
> The Washington Post (DC), February 27, 2014
> President Obama will launch a significant new effort Thursday to bolster the lives of young minority men, seeking to use the power of the presidency to help a group of Americans whose lives are disproportionately affected by poverty and prison. The “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative will bring foundations and companies together to test a range of strategies to support such young men, taking steps to keep them in school and out of the criminal justice system, a White House official said.
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> National Service Blog
> Service Leads to New Direction
> NationalService.gov, February 27, 2014
> Before becoming an AmeriCorps member, John Laderer yearned for a clear direction. “I was somebody who was just floating by in high school,” he said. “I really wasn’t learning … and my reading, writing, and math scores reflected that.”
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